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Auction: 21003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 330

Four: 2nd Lieutenant J. H. Wilson, 8th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottingham and Derbyshire Regiment), who was commissioned from the ranks and killed in action on 7 April 1917

1914-15 Star (17253 Pte. J. H. Wilson. Notts. & Derby. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. J. H. Wilson.); Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (John Hardy Wilson), in its card envelope of issue, nearly extremely fine (4)

John Hardy Wilson was born in 1884, son of Samuel and Frances Wilson of The Yews, Kegworth, Derby. Before the outbreak of the Great War Wilson had worked as an Architectural Assistant for the County Architect and was a member of the Nottingham University OTC. He served in France in the ranks from 14 July 1915 and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 6 August 1916. Wilson was killed in action during the attack on Le Verguireon on 7 April 1917 and is buried in the Vadencourt British Cemetery, Maissemy, being further commemorated upon the Kegworth War Memorial, Nottinghamshire County Council Employees Memorial and the University College Nottingham Officer Training Corps Memorial. The Nottingham Evening Post included the following mention of his death:

'Sympathy was expressed at the meeting of the Notts Education Committee this afternoon [24th April 1917] on the death in action a young officer, and satisfaction at the honour earned by a Hucknall schoolmaster now in the army. Mr. H. Mellish, who was re-elected chairman of the committee, with Mr. R. B. Bagnall-Wild vice-chairman, alluded to both matters. They would learn with regret, he observed, that Lieut. J. H. Wilson, formerly chief assistant to the committee’s architect, had fallen in action. Obtaining a commission in a county battalion, he was one four who fell in a very gallant fight recently.'

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